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"secretly, I also want to hear my rig flat out..."
You are infected with the sound-mans virus. I'm sorry to say if it's not treated you will end up watching you tube videos of Jamaican sound systems in the afternoons whilst constantly scanning ebay for crown amps. The later stages involve huge amounts of cables with terminations most humans have never seen, constant back ache and tinnitus.
A few things to bear in mind :- Your speakers will be in mortal danger from drunks all night, you probably have no way to mount them on tripods so you can get them up out of the way of spilt drinks and projecting over the crowd. You can put together amplification with a simple mixer, so you can use your own speakers as mains then turn them into DJ booth mointors and add the pub pa or a hired PA/anything else you can raise as the night progresses. This keeps you busy all night tweaking but that's half the fun.
For the price of hire you could pick up a second system that you can reinforce your current system with. Then you need to store it though.
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Airhead
thanks, dude.
i am not expecting there to be gig levels of music, but am anticipating the rising volume thing as the evening progresses. i just have to be careful/warn all the prospective jazzy jeffs that it isn't ibiza.
the speakers are likely to be the weak link, i suppose.
the other options are: borrow/hire a pa or use the ipod/3.5mm jack in the pub.
secretly, i also want to hear my rig flat out...